Autism Anxiety Quotes & Sayings

Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself. — Tina J. Richardson

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. — Ira Sachs

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia. — Wendi McLendon-Covey

The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them — Sunday Adelaja

This is where I go, when I go:
It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.
I'm there, but I'm not there.
I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.
This is where I go, when I go:
To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.
This is where I go, when I go:
Somewhere completely, unutterably orange.
This is where I go, when I go:
To the place where my body becomes a piano full of black keys only - the sharps and the flats, when everyone know that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys.
This is why I come back:
To find those white keys. — Jodi Picoult

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way — Tina J. Richardson

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles. — Zora Neale Hurston

A blank, my lord. She never told her love, 110 But let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. — William Shakespeare

You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's some anxiety, depression, some epilepsy or something in the family history. Put them together, you're more likely to have a severely autistic kid than if you don't have any neurological problems in the family history. — Temple Grandin

All my life I've felt different to most. This has caused me anxiety and depression over the years. It took being diagnosed at age 36 to make my life finally make sense. I fit in somewhere now. I feel like I'm not a wrong neurotypical. I'm a complete autistic — Tina J. Richardson

In my practice I use neurofeedback primarily to help with the hyperarousal, confusion, and concentration problems of people who suffer from developmental trauma. However, it has also shown good results for numerous issues and conditions that go beyond the scope of this book, including relieving tension headaches, improving cognitive functioning following a traumatic brain injury, reducing anxiety and panic attacks, learning to deepen meditation states, treating autism, improving seizure control, self-regulation in mood disorders, and more. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

It made no sense when he looked at me that way. Like I was the prize rather than the outrageously lucky winner. — Stephenie Meyer

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one. — Scott Farris

I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life — Jeanette Purkis

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty. — Alexander McCall Smith

Sometimes I don't have enough energy to be social. I need time alone to recover from the last time I went out. — Tina J. Richardson

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full — Tina J. Richardson

Just touching her like this. Holding her face as our bodies touched everywhere made me feel like a freakin' rock star. — Nyrae Dawn

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do. — Bob Ross

And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed - a rich, fulfilling, challenging future for him. So why did Quentin feel like he was looking around frantically for another way out? Why was he still waiting for some grand adventure to come and find him? The professors Quentin talked to about it didn't seem concerned at all. They didn't get what the problem was. What should he do? Why, anything he wanted to! — Lev Grossman

I wish people could read my thoughts instead of having to put them into words. — Tina J. Richardson

He had all sorts of rules he'd constructed for himself over the decades, based on lessons someone must have taught him
what he wasn't entitled to; what he mustn't enjoy; what he mustn't hope or wish for; what he mustn't covet
and it took some years to figure out what these rules were, and longer still to figure out how to try to convince him of their falsehood. But this was very difficult: they were rules by which he had survived his life, they were rules that made the world explicable to him. — Hanya Yanagihara

I'm not really very comfortable being hit on at all. — Jennifer Sky

People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on. — Laura James